Need quick entry into Texas Capitol? Just get a gun permit

[Nuclear Unicorn]

AUSTIN, Tex. (Reuters) – Security is newly tightened at the Texas Capitol, but plenty of gun-toting visitors can breeze right through.

Concealed handgun license holders walk through a special lane marked "CHL Access" around, and not through, the metal detectors put in place last year after a man fired shots outside the statehouse.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110212/us_nm/us_texas_guns

[underpants]

1. Then why have metal detectors?

Hey people of Texas- you are being ripped off.

[cleanhippie]

3. To catch the criminals that have weapons illegally, thats why.

[cleanhippie]

2. Excellent.

One typically has to pass a background check to get one, so its like a ticket to the express lane at security.

Good find.

[Bold Lib]

4. Not much sense screening people for guns that have the license to

carry them there.

[liberal N proud]

5. Absurd

[northoftheborder]

6. Idiots in charge here

[armueller2001]

9. Can you elaborate

why you think this policy is a bad idea? I'm curious.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Duplicate thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=376537&mesg_id=376537

[sharesunited]

8. Ah, yes. Texas. Home of the Guns Galore store, where Nidal Hasan bought his.

[S_B_Jackson]

10. What difference does the name of the business make?

A member of the US Armed forces entered a gun store, filled out a Form 4473, the FFL performed contacted the BATFE for the needed NICS background check and was told that the sale was approved. The gun store owner had no knowledge of the criminal acts that Major Hasan was intending. His possession of that firearm at the Soldier Readiness Center was prohibitted. So too was his decision to carry it with him, as well as his decision to commit multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

11. YUP.